Birdsong

memoirs

Had this now for the last few nights, I live on a busy street in S Dublin CC, and the birds are singing from about 2.30am every night, all the way through to 6am.

Is it a symptom of being so close to a full moon, or am I stuck with earplugs for the rest of the Spring? Anyone else live round the leeson st canal area with this?

Theyre doing it now! I live in the basement and it is pitch black outside!

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memoirs wrote: »

Is it a symptom of being so close to a full moon

Yeah, you should move.

LighterGuy

I noticed this during the week too :eek:
Its weird, they always would sing closer to six am.

carfiosaoorl

I love hearing birds singing it helps me sleep.

uch

I wish my Burd would sing me a song

kincsem

Its common for birds to sing at night (blackbirds for one). Shoot off a gun and they will stop for a few minutes.

memoirs

To Pluto? (its further than the planet between saturn and neptune)

kincsem

Robins, blackbirds, and sparrows.

memoirs

Yeah LighterGuy- I think they might be getting all confused cos it has been clear and the full moon was this week. I hope so. It's nice to hear birdsong but it messes me up when I'm trying to sleep, I keep half going to sleep then thinking its dawn.

kincsem

From experience I know that cockrels don't crow at dawn. Well they do, but they sound off all the time. Feckers.

timesnap

memoirs wrote: »

Had this now for the last few nights, I live on a busy street in S Dublin CC, and the birds are singing from about 2.30am every night, all the way through to 6am.

Is it a symptom of being so close to a full moon, or am I stuck with earplugs for the rest of the Spring? Anyone else live round the leeson st canal area with this?

Theyre doing it now! I live in the basement and it is pitch black outside!

A lot of it is down to the warm air we are having over the last four months.
snowdrops and daffodils came into flower far earlier than normal.

Frogs did not hibernate like they usually do and frogspawn was found December 2011.

* going to take out my Mayen Calender and head to bunker :eek:

Super-Rush

Stupid town birds.

Thats why you see them on the ground the whole time.

Too tired to fly.

memoirs

Yeah maybe all the immigrating birds came in earlier than usual because of the warm weather? One possibility. I did see a 'oh crap we have no news' story on RTE tonight about snow drops blossoming too soon.

(Or else its a load of town birds trying to cross the road. What a joke.)

policarp

El Pistolero wrote: »

Stupid town birds.

Thats why you see them on the ground the whole time.

Too tired to fly.

Pistelero get a shotgun.

Sharpshooter

memoirs wrote: »

Theyre doing it now! I live in the basement and it is pitch black outside!

Chirup,they're tweeting!

timesnap

memoirs wrote: »

(Or else its a load of town birds trying to cross the road. What a joke.)

may'be when primetime investigates is allowed back on air its first show will be called : why did the town bird cross the road-an investigation into prostitution in Ireland.
i know that is what i would call it and why i know i will never get a job on RTE

timesnap

Hot Lips wrote: »

Chirup,they're tweeting!

http://www.bigfootsden.com/store.items/tweety.bird.aminated.phone.and.alarm.clock.jpg

matchthis

You must not have heard, bird is the word

RachaelVO

Mustard gas OP, that's the only solution to a lie in!!!!!!

starviewadams

They've been singing since midnight every night here beside Newlands X over the past week or so,house mate reckons it's cos of the unseasonably warm weather.

timesnap

starviewadams wrote: »

They've been singing since midnight every night here beside Newlands X over the past week or so,house mate reckons it's cos of the unseasonably warm weather.

Ahemmmm page one of two:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76504183&postcount=11

Badly Drunk Boy

I doubt if it has anything to do with the full moon. I was working the evening shift last week, and when I was going home at midnight, the birds were a-chirping like mad.

Scruffles

they have been having a good sing song for a while here-from very early on,have been wondering wtf are they doing out at this time as it isnt like our area is well lit and can confuse birds with day time.

the artificial lighting doesnt help birds,but they may just have insomnia like us human kind.
pity there isnt a boards for birds.

Fart

I've noticed this too and they've been driving me mad. I'm such a light sleeper that anything can wake me. The birds do too and so early in the morning.

I've been up since 4:30... cue a cranky face.

Temptamperu

I used to hate it, all sounds infact when I used to go to bed but I just dont dwell on it and now I have a wonderful sleep every three days.

just be glad it isn't this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYmEviJK5Hs

Sparrows' birdsong is not what it seems - they're actually trading insults
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2025006/Sparrows-birdsong--theyre-actually-trading-insults.html

The sound of sparrows can be music to our ears. But researchers say their birdsong is actually an aggressive form of swapping insults.

The species' soothing sounds actually have a lot in common with the profanity-strewn bragging of rappers, with male sparrows using them to prove how macho they are – and the tougher the area, the more they do so.

The birds usually have a large repertoire of songs, and just like their human equivalents, most of the boasting and trading of insults is all about impressing the girls.